This morning, Keith Pond introduces a sermon series that will be scattered throughout the year as he has opportunity to preach. Francis Schaeffer asked a question that became the title of one of his books: in light of the truth of the Gospel, “How Should We Then Live?” Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, begins with great encouragement and exhortation to his disciples regarding what living such a life should look like. Before we delve into the Beatitudes, the background to the Sermon on the Mount. The disciples and the crowds that followed him heard the same message from John the Baptist and Jesus: “Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” What does that mean for us as saints 2000 years later?